[Interest] minimum macOS runtime version for Qt 5.9+

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

Huh. Apparently every time I click on the "Operating Systems > Desktop
share (by version)" I get it for a different time frame. My bad.



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Jean-Michaël Celerier
http://www.jcelerier.name

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well you haven't shown your search criteria but I can tell you that the
> October 2017 stats are not what you say: https://imgur.com/a/avGLj. If
> you're gonna be using stats to reinforce your point, you've gotta be honest
> about it.
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:47 AM Jean-Michaël Celerier <
> jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Uh ? For me it says 2.20% for MacOS 10.10 and 1.75% for Linux (in Desktop
>> OS market share).
>> https://imgur.com/a/xvAzX
>>
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>> Jean-Michaël Celerier
>> http://www.jcelerier.name
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> I don't know where you're looking, but that says Linux is at 2.98%
>>> while macOS 10.10 is at 0.75%. Just pointing it out in case someone
>>> else believed this at first.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:24 AM Jean-Michaël Celerier <
>>> jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are more or less as many MacOS 10.10 users than Linux users
>>>> apparently, so by that logic Qt should be dropping Linux support altogether
>>>> :p (according to https://www.netmarketshare.com/)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Jean-Michaël Celerier
>>>> http://www.jcelerier.name
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Jake Petroules <Jake.Petroules at qt.io>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Nov 28, 2017, at 7:43 PM, Hamish Moffatt <
>>>>> hamish at risingsoftware.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html lists the supported
>>>>> macOS environments, but it's not clear if it's the same versions (10.10+)
>>>>> for runtime (deployment) as well as development, or whether running on
>>>>> earlier versions is supported. Does anyone know?
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently we support the same minimum version for both runtime and
>>>>> development. Currently this is macOS 10.10 for Qt 5.9. Earlier OS versions
>>>>> will not work and will crash.
>>>>>
>>>>> > http://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-5.10/supported-platforms.html
>>>>> suggests that 5.10 will increase this requirement further to 10.11+. Why is
>>>>> this?
>>>>>
>>>>> We decided it wasn't worth the resources to continue testing with
>>>>> 10.10. macOS upgrades are now free and the overwhelming majority of users
>>>>> are on the latest version.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why do you need to support older versions?
>>>>>
>>>>> > Thanks,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Hamish
>>>>> >
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